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UNITED `STATES EDWARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO I PATENT OFFICE..

BROOKS 82 CO., OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 270,874, dated January 16, 1823,

Application tiled October 7,1882. (Model.)

A1" o all 'whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWARD J. BRooKs, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gar- Door Fastenings, ot' which the following is a specication. p

The present invention is additional to my improvement in car-door fastenings described and claimedin Letters Patent No. 256,791, dated April 18, 1882, having reference primarily to improved means for temporarily fastening the doors of railway freight-cars, and forI securing the same by lead-and-wire seals and padlocks, either-or both. The present invention relates also to improved means for labeling such fastenings, so as to show when and where they were sealed or locked, the contents and destination of the car, or likeinform'ation.

This invention consists,tirst,in a novel combination of parts for fastening a car-door, comprising a gravitating swingingbolt which engages automatically with the hasp and is readily disengaged at will by the pressure ofa finger when it is unlocked and unsealed; and, secondly, in peculiar means for adapting the said swinging bolt to be secured by a glass-seal padlock, or a padlock of any other description, the same means serving also in part to facilitate disengaging said swinging bolt from the hasp in the manner aforesaid, as hereinafter more particularly described and claimed.

In the two sheets of drawings which accompany this specification as part thereof, Figure l is a perspective view of my improved cardoor fastening simply fastened 7 and provided with a labeling-tag. Fig.2 is an edge view of the same, partly in section, illustrating the nnfastening operation. Fig.3isa partial front view, illustrating the operation' of securin g the `fastening by a lead-and-wire seal. Fig. 4 represents a vertical longitudinal section in the plane. of the said swinging bolt, showing the astenin gas seen in Fig. 1, with a padlock as applied thereto, in dotted lines. Fig. 5 represents a horizontal section on the line 5 5, Fig. 4, and Fig. 6 represents a horizontal section through the hinge end of the hasp and the tag-support.

Like letters of referencendieate corresponding parts in all the ligures, and Figs. 2 to 6, inclusive, are drawn to one and the same scale, larger than that of Fig. l.

As in the drawings ot' my aforesaid previous Letters Patent, No. 256,791, A (in each of the iigures where it occurs) represents a shackle or hasp attached at one end to a car-door; B, a bolt adapted to engage by gravitation with the free end of said hasp, so as to retain it; and C, a casing-for said bolt, constructed with 6 a support, s, for said hasp, and attached to the side of the car or lo another door in proper position to receive said free end of the hasp, each of these parts beinga single iron casting; and L, Fig. 3, represents a lead-and-wire seal, and P, Fig. 4, a padlock, the shackles of which said casing and bolt are adapted to receive to secure the latter. In the generic features thus indicated the new car-door fastening resembles those shown and described in said previous Letters Patent, No. 256,791. I will now proceed to set forth its distinctive const-ruction and mode of operation.

rlhe hasp A is constructed withv a shank, z, of I shapein cross-section, as shown by a break in Fig. 1. Behind its hinge end a plate, Y, is secured, and this plate extends beneath said shank and is provided with astud-pim, tocoact with the hollow back of the shank asa supporte? for labeling-tags T, as shown in l and6.`8 These tags may be of metal, paper, or waterproof cloth, ot' any shape, size, and color, and may be printed or stamped on one or both sides with appropriate information and instructions, and one or more may be used at a time. Two

l'are shown in Fig. 1, representing respectively a substitute fora car-cardand a return-tag. I prefer round lags ot' enameled sheet metal printed with blanks to be iilled by means of a rubber stamp. The tags being applied, as shown, and the hasp secured by seal or lock, it will be apparent that they cannot be released without first unsealing or unlocking the fastening. I propose, as a modification, locating the stud-pin w on the lower end of the casing Q and providing the free end ot' the hasp with a hollow back to coact therewith.

The bolt B is of peculiar shape, (shown most clearly in Figs. 4 and 5,) and swings within the casing G, upon a horizontal pivot, w, paralroo lel to the'side of the car, said pivot being located at its upper end and in front of its center of gravity, while thelower extremity of the bolt lits above the top of the free end of the hasp A when the latter is engaged with its support s, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3 and in full line in Fig. 2, and at two intermediate points, respectively. The boltis supported in front by a lower stop, v, forming part of'the casing C, and is exposed by a recess, u, in the front of said casing. When unlocked and unsealed, as shown in F-igs. 1 and 2, the pressure of a linger upon the exposed front of the bolt, as indicated in Fig. 2, releases the hasp A with the utmost facility. In the fastening operation the bolt yields in like manner to the pressure of the en tering hasp until the latter passes a shoulder, t, and drops into a recess, 1', with which the top of the hasp-supportsis provided.

vThe bolt then swings outward automatically and fastens the hasp. y

rIhe casing C is constructed of the shape clearly represented by Figs. l to 4, comprising those features already mentioned. The haspsupports, which is cast on the casing C as a stud,isby preference c) lindrical, apart from its recess r, and the free end ofthe hasp A is correspondingly constructed with U-shaped holes q, of which there may be two, as shown, or but one, or more than two, to engage with said support. Two or more of the holes q provide for lastening the door partly open as well as closed. Ahollow projectiomp, on the front of the casing G, at its upper end, is drilled transversely to receive the pivot w, which is in the shape of a pin or rivet. The top of the casing is free from joints, and, in connection with said projection p, sheds water and dust.

The lead-and-wire seal L is accommodated, in substantially the same manner as in my previous fastenings aforesaid, by a threading-hole, o, which is formed by holes in the casing C and holt B, so drilled as to coincide when the bolt is in its normal or fastened position. Two or more such threading-holes may be formed in like manner, and they may be adapted to receive sheet-metal shackles, as well as shackles of wire. A preferred style of leadand-wire seal is shown unpressed in Fig. 3. It consists of a shackle-wire having one of its ends, n, indented,7 as patented by me June 27, 1876, and the other, fm, provided with"anchor ing-projections,77 as patented by me July 3, 1877, with a peculiarly-shaped seal-disk, l, of lead, cast on said indented end, as described in my patents of September 1, 1874, August 215, 41581, and February 14,1882, and the other `end, m, so directed by the threading-hole of the seal-disk las to cross the wirewithin the seal-disk. as patented by me March 80, 1875, the requisite large threading-hole being accommodated by a diagonal semi-cylindrical projection 011 the face of the seal-disk, as shown. Seals made under either of my patents, or of any approved description having shackles of sufficient strength, may be used.

The padlock I? may be a glass-seal padlock, as indicated, or a suitable padlock ot' any description. Its shackle is accommodated by the said recess u in the face of the casing C, and by a large threading-hole, 7c, in the holt B, coinciding with said recess, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 4. It thus secures said bolt in the most direct and positive manner. Its application and removal are facilitated, and the projection of the bolt B,which accommodates said thread ing-hole k, facilitates pushing back the bolt to release the hasp, in the manner aforesaid, as illustrated by Fig. 2.

The preferred mode of securely attaching the casing C to the side of the freight-car is clearly represented by Figs. 4 and 5. A pair ot' castin7 iron rods, j, of suitable length, project from the back of the casing, and holes are `bored in the side of the carto receive them,

and spurs t', on the back of thecasin g, are driven into the outer surface ofthe car-side in the act of setting the casing solidly against the carside. Gountersunk washers H, having like spurs, Iare now driven home upon the ends ot' the rods j, and the latter are headed within the countersinks, as shown at g. The hasp A is preferably attached to the car-door insubstantially the same manner', a rivetrod,f, be-

ing' formed in continuation of the hinge-staple' E, to coact with a countersunk washer, similar to W, while the said plate Y, which supports said hinge-staple, as showh, is provided with spurs d, similar to i. I do not, however, limit myself to this mode of attaching the parts, as bolts or screws may be used, as shown, for example, in my aforesaid previous Letters Patent, No. 256,791.

Having thus described my present inven-4 tion, I claim as new- 1. In a car-door fastening, in combination with a hasp, A, and a bolt-casing, (J, the latter having a support for the free end of said hasp, a gravitating swinging bolt, B, adapted to fasten said hasp upon said hasp-support by its lower end, and having its pivot at its 11p-- per end in front of its center of gravity, a portion of its front below said pivot being exposed, substantially as herein specified, for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with the bolt-casing C, constructed with a recess, u, in its front, as described, the swinging bolt B, pivoted within said casing, having its pivot parallel to said front of said casing, and constructed with a. transverse threading-hole, 1c, coinciding with said recess u, to receive the shackle ot' a padlock, substantially as herein specilied.

` l EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

N. S. KLrNE, J. S. JENNINGS.

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